WHI WHI strives to improve health through research on risk factors, prevention, and early detection of serious health conditions, so postmenopausal women thrive Learn more
Womens Health Initiative - Wikipedia In 2015, the WHI study was awarded the 2015 Team Science Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS), "given in recognition of the WHI team's success in the translation of research discoveries into clinical applications and, eventually, widespread clinical practice "
Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) - NHLBI, NIH The WHI continues to contribute to the science of women’s health through extension and ancillary studies The WHI is the largest women’s health prevention study ever conducted
Hormone Therapy for Menopause—A New Analysis of Old Data The new analysis of the WHI data found that hormone therapy not only relieved moderate and severe vasomotor symptoms, but it did so without raising the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—including nonfatal myocardial infarction, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease—among women aged 50 to 59 years
Thirty years later, the Women’s Health Initiative . . . - NHLBI, NIH These benefits had been established before the WHI study began Another finding from the study is that calcium and vitamin D supplements were not associated with reduced risks for hip fractures among postmenopausal women who had an average risk for osteoporosis
About WHI The WHI Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) is located at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, WA The tables below show the investigator names and locations of the original Clinical Centers and the current Regional Centers
Main Findings from the WHI Trials: The Writing Group for the WHI Investigators Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy post-menopausal women: Principal results of the Women’s Health Initiative randomized controlled trial
WHI Publications Estimating the effect of hypothetical dietary protein interventions on changes in body composition of postmenopausal women over 3 years using data from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study: An emulated target trial
Meet the Women’s Health Initiative - NHLBI, NIH The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is a large women’s health study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) that examines the major causes of heart disease, cancer, and other serious health conditions